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Book Straying

    Book Details:
  • Author : Molly McCloskey
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2018-02-20
  • ISBN : 1501172484
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Straying written by Molly McCloskey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A memoir-vivid portrait of a vertiginous affair” (Vogue) for readers of Jenny Offill, Garth Greenwell, and Anne Enright, an unforgettable novel about a young American expat who settles in Ireland, marries, and lives through the consequences of an affair—by “an extravagantly gifted writer” (Rachel Cusk). In this “humane and lucid novel” (The New York Times), Alice, a young American, arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments. She meets and falls in love with an Irishman, quickly marries him, and settles down in a place whose customs are unfamiliar. And then, in the course of a single hot summer, she embarks on an affair that breaks her marriage and sets her life on a new course. Years later, in the immediate aftermath of her beloved mother’s death, Alice, having worked in war zones around the world, finds herself back in Ireland, contemplating the forces that led her to put down roots and then tear them up again. What drew her to her husband, and what pulled her away? Was her husband strangely complicit in the affair? Was she always under surveillance by friends and neighbors who knew more than they let on? “Short, intense, and emotionally precise” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Straying is at once a “ferociously well written” (The Guardian) account of passion and ambivalence and an exquisite rumination on the things that matter most.

Book Straying from the Straight Path

Download or read book Straying from the Straight Path written by Daan Beekers and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or weakness in faith – outside the domain of religion ‘proper.’ Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part and parcel of religious practice and experience. Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the largely separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, this volume gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.

Book Civil Liability for Animals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter North
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-01-12
  • ISBN : 0199600813
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Civil Liability for Animals written by Peter North and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses civil liability for harm done by animals including dangerous and non-dangerous species, straying livestock, animals on the highway, and special provisions relating to dogs. The book analyses the operation of the 1971 Animals Act along with the significant body of relevant case law.

Book The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout

Download or read book The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout written by Thomas P. Quinn and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few subjects have generated as much emotional dialogue around conflicting scientific and policy agendas as the protection and management of Pacific salmon resources. In this major new work, esteemed fisheries expert Thomas Quinn distills from the vast scientific literature the essential information on the behavior and ecology of Pacific salmon, including steelhead and cutthroat trout. Unlike other books that examine only selected life stages, habitats, or species, this book--richly illustrated with beautiful photographs and original drawings--thoroughly covers the complete life cycle, emphasizing common themes and differences among the various species of salmon. Representing the range of species and geographic regions, Quinn includes examples from classic studies by pioneers of salmon biology and from the most current research to illustrate the important features of salmon life history and behavior and the complex physical, biological, and human factors that affect them. The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout introduces salmon and trout as a group, with a brief description of each species, and compares them to other fishes. The book then follows salmon on their amazing homeward migration from the open ocean, through the complex coastal waters, and upstream to the precise location where they were spawned years earlier. It explains the patterns of mate choice, the competition for nest sites, and the fate of the salmon after their death. It describes the lives of offspring during the months they spend incubating in gravel, growing in fresh water, and migrating out to sea to mature. Quinn emphasizes the importance of salmon to humans and to natural ecosystems and the need to integrate sound biology into conservation efforts. This thorough, up-to-date survey should be on the shelf of anyone with a professional or personal interest in Pacific salmon and trout. Written in a technically accurate but engaging style, it will appeal to a wide range of readers, including students, anglers, biologists, conservationists, legislators, and armchair naturalists.

Book Straying Towards Truth

Download or read book Straying Towards Truth written by Msw Lisw Fennell and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significantly informative, pragmatic, and truly poignant revelations shared by the survivor, the parent, and the therapist as they work together toward healing after the disclosure of sexual abuse.

Book The Besht

Download or read book The Besht written by Immanuel Etkes and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism

Book Lamp of Mahamudra

Download or read book Lamp of Mahamudra written by Sna-tshogs-raṅ-grol (Rtse-le Rgod-tshaṅ-pa) and published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Impure Conceits

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  • Author : Alison Hickey
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780804729710
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Impure Conceits written by Alison Hickey and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book redefines the place of the Wordsworthian imagination in a cultural moment often classified as the transition from “Romantic” to “Victorian.” Taking The Excursion and a constellation of related texts as a framework, the book suggests that the staggering critical neglect of Wordsworth's major project is correlated with the persistent inability of literary historians to chart that transition. To understand this elusive phase of literary and cultural history, the author proposes, we need to understand Wordsworth's role in it. The book reevaluates the significance of The Excursion, both in Wordsworth's corpus and in the contexts of the French Revolution and the post-Napoleonic industrial/imperial order leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832. Through a series of theoretically informed readings of The Excursion alongside other Wordsworthian texts, the author reveals Wordsworth's ongoing vital engagement with questions of imagination and ideology, questions that persist, in ever-shifting forms, through the continuities and discontinuities of historical “context.” Foregrounding problems of rhetorical interpretation as The Excursion's central concern, this study focuses on the implications of these problems for the text's promotion of a social vision. It examines various figural systems—family narratives, property, education, and imperialism—and shows how diverse critical strategies of assimilating poetic text to doctrine meet with a resistant “blankness” at the heart of the figural production of meaning in the poem. This blankness is suggestive of the gap between Wordsworth's poetry and its simple appropriation by cultural or political analysis. Paradoxically it also suggests that an understanding of the dynamics of poetic figuration is crucially relevant to any study of Wordsworth's social and political theory.

Book A Collection of Proclamations and Government Notices

Download or read book A Collection of Proclamations and Government Notices written by Mauritius and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asaph

Download or read book Asaph written by Lowell Mason and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Naked Seeing

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  • Author : Christopher Hatchell
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199982910
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Naked Seeing written by Christopher Hatchell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism is in many ways a visual tradition, with its well-known practices of visualization, its visual arts, its epistemological writings that discuss the act of seeing, and its literature filled with images and metaphors of light. Some Buddhist traditions are also visionary, advocating practices by which meditators seek visions that arise before their eyes. Naked Seeing investigates such practices in the context of two major esoteric traditions, the Wheel of Time (Kalacakra) and the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). Both of these experimented with sensory deprivation, and developed yogas involving long periods of dwelling in dark rooms or gazing at the open sky. These produced unusual experiences of seeing, which were used to pursue some of the classic Buddhist questions about appearances, emptiness, and the nature of reality. Along the way, these practices gave rise to provocative ideas and suggested that, rather than being apprehended through internal insight, religious truths might also be seen in the exterior world-realized through the gateway of the eyes. Christopher Hatchell presents the intellectual and literary histories of these practices, and also explores the meditative techniques and physiology that underlie their distinctive visionary experiences. The book also offers for the first time complete English translations of three major Tibetan texts on visionary practice: a Kalacakra treatise by Yumo Mikyo Dorjé, The Lamp Illuminating Emptiness, a Nyingma Great Perfection work called The Tantra of the Blazing Lamps, and a Bön Great Perfection work called Advice on the Six Lamps, along with a detailed commentary on this by Drugom Gyalwa Yungdrung.

Book Patterns Of Infidelity And Their Treatment

Download or read book Patterns Of Infidelity And Their Treatment written by Emily M. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this highly-regarded book includes comprehensive discussion of the nature of an affair and the five types of affairs and their underlying dynamics. The author addresses issues regarding revealing the affair, management of the consequences, rebuilding, and treating an unmarried third party, as well as the host of complex issues regarding children and custody arrangements. New material for the second edition includes cybersex and the effects of new technology on fidelity in marriage; the effects of managed care on treatment; marriage to the third party; and a new chapter on affairs and violence.

Book American River Pump Station Project

Download or read book American River Pump Station Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fishery Bulletin

Download or read book Fishery Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evolution Illuminated

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  • Author : Stephen C. Stearns
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2003-11-27
  • ISBN : 9780195343830
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book Evolution Illuminated written by Stephen C. Stearns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-27 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will appeal to investigators in each of the scientific disciplines it integrates--evolutionary biology, ecology, salmonid biology, management, and conservation. Variation in salmonids can be used to illustrate virtually all evolutionary questions, and so the work will also attract general scientific interest by ecologists and evolutionary and conservation biologists.

Book Fiscal Year 1999 Draft Work Plan

Download or read book Fiscal Year 1999 Draft Work Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: